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Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Comedy Central's veterans South Park (0.96) and Broad City (0.51) teamed up on Wednesday, with South Park still near the top of the cable rankings but giving back all of its big premiere night growth from last year. It did give a nice boost to Broad City, which was +11% from last year's premiere (when it didn't have such a lead-in).

After last week's underwhelming premiere, American Horror Story (1.24) followed it up with the series' biggest post-premiere drop. Its first two points of the season have gone -27% and -31% y2y.

A full year after wrapping season one, Vice Principals (0.33) returned to HBO for its second and final season, pairing with the tail end of the Ballers (0.38). It was down 40% from the year-ago series premiere, but Ballers was down even more from that night (a 0.79 on 7/17/2016). And Principals had a few points that were lower than the 0.33 late in season one.

And FX welcomed back acclaimed but low-rated comedy Better Things (0.17) with a huge year-to-year tumble for the season two premiere. Like Vice Principals, it avoided a new series low, thanks to some mid-0.1 points throughout season one.

Elsewhere, Rick and Morty (1.41) had a huge night for Adult Swim, growing to its best rating since the season premiere. And the penultimate episode of The Sinner (0.54) just missed out on last week's 0.55 series high, despite a season high lead-in from the Suits finale (0.47). The Sinner will go for six series highs in eight episodes with tonight's finale.

FULL TABLE:

Show

Episode

Season

Name

Net

Ep

A18-49

Last

Seas

Avg

y2y

Proj

ProjPlus

Skew

Male

American Horror Story

FX

2

1.24

-39%

7

1.63

-29%

1.12

109

65%

43%

Rick and Morty

ADUL

7

1.41

+7%

3

1.35

+33%

1.33

109

69%

67%

South Park

COME

1

0.96

11

0.96

-27%

0.75

61

72%

67%

Ballers

HBO

9

0.38

-7%

3

0.94

+65%

0.94

77

60%

59%

Fear the Walking Dead

AMC

10

0.74

-5%

3

0.91

-55%

0.83

68

48%

53%

The Haves and the Have Nots

OWN

23

0.62

-9%

4

0.64

-22%

0.64

53

33%

33%

Broad City

COME

1

0.51

2

0.51

+11%

0.40

33

74%

60%

The Sinner

USA

7

0.54

-2%

1

0.50

0.50

41

37%

33%

The Guest Book

TBS

8

0.35

-5%

1

0.40

0.39

32

45%

49%

Suits

USA

10

0.47

+17%

7

0.38

-21%

0.38

31

33%

47%

Greenleaf

OWN

14

0.35

0%

2

0.37

-41%

0.37

30

33%

32%

The Strain

FX

10

0.40

+18%

4

0.37

-11%

0.37

30

47%

60%

Being Mary Jane

BET

19

0.27

-18%

4

0.36

-51%

0.36

30

53%

23%

Vice Principals

HBO

1

0.33

2

0.33

-40%

0.22

18

59%

59%

The Last Ship

TNT

6

0.34

+26%

4

0.32

-35%

0.32

27

24%

56%

Ray Donovan

SHOW

13

0.26

-24%

4

0.31

-31%

0.31

25

32%

54%

People of Earth

TBS

9

0.27

-13%

2

0.30

-8%

0.30

24

56%

59%

Outlander

STAR

2

0.29

-6%

4

0.30

-9%

0.20

16

26%

30%

Talking Dead: Fear

AMC

7

0.24

+14%

2

0.29

-60%

0.24

20

45%

53%

The Deuce

HBO

2

0.28

+17%

1

0.26

0.26

25

39%

57%

Chesapeake Shores

HALL

7

0.27

+13%

2

0.24

-18%

0.24

20

17%

29%

Survivor's Remorse

STAR

4

0.15

+7%

4

0.23

-39%

0.23

19

50%

38%

Younger

TVLA

12

0.29

+21%

4

0.22

+31%

0.22

18

39%

25%

Teen Wolf

MTV

19

0.22

-4%

6

0.22

-46%

0.22

18

61%

46%

Odd Mom Out

BRAV

10

0.17

-6%

3

0.19

0%

0.20

16

46%

24%

Better Things

FX

1

0.17

2

0.17

-45%

0.11

9

41%

Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce

BRAV

5

0.15

+15%

4

0.13

-12%

0.12

10

43%

You're the Worst

FXX

3

0.10

-17%

4

0.12

-16%

0.09

8

59%

Halt and Catch Fire

AMC

3

0.09

-31%

4

0.11

-20%

0.10

8

44%

50%

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